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Farm workers tend young plants at the palm oil plantation owned by the Indian company Karuturi near the town of Bako in Ethiopia. (Photo: Jose Cendon/Getty)
Contentious ... Jackson Ubre paddles from Drimgas, on the Fly River, near Kiunga. (Photo: Jason South)
Into the fire ... Rita Foxcy on her land near Kiunga, which is subject to a special agricultural and business lease. (Photo: Jason South)
Activists protest against ‘land grabbing’ at the FAO's Rome headquarters, Oct 2011. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images
Presentation by representatives of civil society of the Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabbing to the chair of the CFS, urging governments to adopt effective guidelines on land tenure.
Battle of the bush: Rita Foxcy stands on a tree trunk in forest near Kiunga that is subject to a lease. (Photo: Jason South)
Socfin, part of French billionaire Vincent Bolloré's Bolloré Group, owns more than 51,000 hectares of palm estates in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Cameroon.
Beyond talks with farmers and businessmen from the Punjab, Karuturi is understood to have initiated discussions with some farmers in South India and a few agri-commodity majors in hopes to outsource as much as 50,000 hectares of land in Ethiopia.
